About

Purpose

Places+Spaces builds upon decades of research into community sustainable development by Professor Ann Dale. Places+Spaces builds upon rigorous modelling techniques to help inform complex decisions at the community scale.

Scope

The “engine” of this tool – which traces the complex relationships between levers and impacts – is an integrated systems simulation model of a community. The model incorporates community-specific data and reflects community-specific policies and scenarios.

Places+Spaces

has a biophysical foundation that integrates population and demographics; buildings and urban form;

The basic premise of sustainable development is that human and natural systems are dynamically interdependent and cannot be considered in isolation in order to resolve critical issues. Human societies and ecological systems are so interconnected that they are co-adaptive, reacting to each other and to previous interactions and reactions in a network of feedbacks.

Refinement and model calibration

This process has resulted in Places+Spaces v.1. The team is already strategizing around v.2., experimenting with further integration of financial modeling and data visualization. Please contact us for more information.